{"id":2658,"date":"2016-08-13T19:51:52","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2658"},"modified":"2016-08-13T19:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T19:51:52","slug":"california-taking-seriously-the-misconduct-of-its-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2658","title":{"rendered":"California taking seriously the misconduct of its prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2659\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2659\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2659\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160813Lopez.jpg\" alt=\"Assemblywoman Patty L\u00f3pez with the Dalai Lama in June.\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160813Lopez.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/160813Lopez-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Assemblywoman Patty L\u00f3pez with the Dalai Lama in June.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Aug. 13, 2016<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bill to increase criminal penalties for prosecutors who intentionally withhold or falsify evidence is headed to the [California] state Senate after being approved in committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe measure by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez, D-San Fernando, would upgrade the violation from a misdemeanor to a felony for offending prosecutors. It\u2019s already a felony for police officers to withhold or falsify evidence. The proposal provides for sentences of 16 months, two years and three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill received the go-ahead from the Senate Appropriations Committee despite opposition from prosecution groups that say it is redundant and potentially costly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpponents say that boosting the penalty for prosecutors would bog down the courts and that prosecutors already are subject to sanctions by the state Bar Association when they commit misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSupporters argue that judges and the Bar rarely take action against offenders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/articles\/prosecutors-725517-bill-state.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bill boosting penalty for prosecutor misconduct gets OK<\/a>\u201d\u00a0by Tony Saavedra in the Orange County Register (Aug. 11)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that other states, such as California, aren\u2019t as timid in disciplining prosecutors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=2238\">as is North Carolina<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1707\" src=\"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/LRDCC20.jpg\" alt=\"LRDCC20\" width=\"132\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aug. 13, 2016 \u201cA bill to increase criminal penalties for prosecutors who intentionally withhold or falsify evidence is headed to the [California] state Senate after being approved in committee. \u201cThe measure by Assemblywoman Patty Lopez, D-San Fernando, would upgrade the violation from a misdemeanor to a felony for offending prosecutors. It\u2019s already a felony for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2662,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2658\/revisions\/2662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}